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Social Feature of SharePoint 2013

Out-of-the-box SharePoint 2013 has some pretty neat capabilities to support project management initiatives in your organization. Some of the enhancements will greatly improve the communication on a project so that everybody can collaborate effectively!

Some of the items like Newsfeeds enable immediate discussions, features connecting SharePoint to Microsoft Office helps people collaborate quicker and easier, and mobile improvements allow team members to stay tuned in while on the go.

SharePoint’s new features are strong influenced by–or in some cases, lifted from–from the top social networks. For instance, the updated My Sites feature has a strong microblogging component, complete with likes, hash tags, app mentions, and other social tools you’ll recognize from Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Community sites–discussion forums where enterprise users share information and answer colleagues’ questions–bring a similar social feel to collaborative computing.

Sharepoint 2013′s People Card contains your contact information, as well as pictures, status updates, and activity feeds from SharePoint, Facebook, and LinkedIn. And SkyDrive Pro, the premium version of Microsoft’s cloud storage and syncing service, allows users to share files across SharePoint.

In earlier versions of SharePoint, each user had a profile and a personal site (e.g., My Site). The 2013 version of SharePoint splits My Site into three sections: Newsfeed, SkyDrive, and Sites. (More on each in the slideshow). A global navigation bar provides access to each section. These social features are tightly integrated into SharePoint 2013, so you no longer need to launch a Web browser to access them.

Previously, enterprise social networking on SharePoint required either extensive customization or the use of an add-on product such as NewsGator Social Sites. While still leaving room for third-party products to add features on top of the platform, Microsoft has now made SharePoint more of an enterprise social network in its own right.

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting – ASPHostPortal.com :: How to Add or Remove A New User to SharePoint Group Using Powershell Script

How to Add or Remove A New User to SharePoint Group Using Powershell Script

In SharePoint site you can see usually a lot of groups. Sometimes administrator gets a task to add user to several groups. If it’s 3-5 groups you can do it manually, but if you need to add user to 30 groups? I’m too lazy to do it manually and too smart not do it at all.

Start your windows PowerShell on your computer.
Right click and select Run as administrator option.
Paste the below script on the PowerShell window and click the enter button.
Check your SharePoint site Feature will activated successfully.

So let’s start out PowerShell ISE and connect SharePoint CMD-let:

if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) 
{ 
 Write-Host "Connect Sharepoint cmd-Let" 
 Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell 
}

Let’s enter site collection url, username for inserting to groups and get array of destination SharePoint groups. For example, let this groups contain a string “admin”

$url = "http://user"
$userName = "user\testuser1"
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url) 
$web = $site.OpenWeb() 
$groups = $web.sitegroups
write-host "------get array of groups which contain a string "admin"-----" 
$myGroups = @(); 
foreach($group in $groups) { 
if($group -match "admin") { 
$myGroups += $group 
} 
}

Go through each element of array and add user to SharePoint group

foreach ($gr in $myGroups) { 
#add user to SP Group
 Set-SPUser -Identity $userName -web $url -Group $gr 
 write-host "User " $userName "added to " $gr 
}

And if you made a false and, for example, entered wrong username, you can easily remove user from SharePoint groups with this PS-code:

foreach ($gr in $myGroups) { 
 $theGroup = $web.SiteGroups[$gr] 
 $theUser = $web.AllUsers.Item($userName) 
#Remove user from SP Group
 $theGroup.RemoveUser($theUser); 
 write-host "User " $userName " removed from " $gr
}

If you don’t want to collect these pieces here’s a full version:

if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) 
{ 
 Write-Host "Connect Sharepoint cmd-Let" 
 Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell 
}
$url = "http://user"
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url) 
$web = $site.OpenWeb() 
$groups = $web.sitegroups 
$userName = "user\testuser1" 
write-host "--------------" 
$i = 0; 
$myGroups = @(); 
foreach($group in $groups) { 
 if($group -match "admin") { 
 $myGroups += $group 
 } 
} 
foreach ($gr in $myGroups) { 
 write-host $gr 
#add user to SP Group
 Set-SPUser -Identity $userName -web $url -Group $gr 
 $theGroup = $web.SiteGroups[$gr] 
 $theUser = $web.AllUsers.Item($userName) 
#Remove user from SP Group
# $theGroup.RemoveUser($theUser); 
 write-host "User " $userName "added to " $gr 
}

If there are non-english letters in a group name or if the group you need is on another site (but in this site collection), then you can have error on Set-SPUser command. In this case I can advice you to use another command $web.SiteGroups[group name].AddUser(user)

foreach ($gr in $myGroups) { 
 Write-Output "Группа: $gr " 
#alternative way to add user to SP Group 
 $theUser = $web.AllUsers.Item($userName)
 $web.SiteGroups[$gr].AddUser($theUser) 
 Write-Output "User $userName added to $gr" 
}

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Sharepoint 2013 Hosting – ASPHostPortal.com :: User Profile Property Cannot be Deleted in SharePoint 2013

If you run into the problem that you can’t delete properties within the User Profile Service Application, an Exception like this will be shown:

The delete operation failed, please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact your administrator.

To resolve the problem, grant “Full Control” permissions to the administrative Applicationpools group (WSS_WPG).

Now you should be able to delete properties again.

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting – ASPHostPortal.com :: How to Fix SharePoint 0x8004010F Error

Task ‘SharePoint‘ reported error (0x8004010F) : ‘The SharePoint List cannot be found. If the problem continues, contact the SharePoint site administrator. HTTP 404.

Issue: connected SharePoint Lists with the Outlook and we open the Outlook we see the error sometimes” Task ‘SharePoint’ reported error (0×80040102) : ‘Outlook cannot connect to the SharePoint List (site name – list name). The server may not be reachable from your location. Contact the SharePoint site administrator for more information. HTTP 0.

Cause: The issue could be of many reasons. find the below

1.   Could be the Lists is not connected properly with outlook
2.   Could be the list is removed
3.   make sure that all user accounts requesting have proper permissions

Solution: Ensure to check the following steps to resolve the issue.
If you no longer have to synchronize with the specific SharePoint list mentioned in the error, follow these steps to remove the SharePoint list from Outlook:

1.   Select Tools, and then click Account Settings.
2.   Click Account Settings, and then click SharePoint Lists.

3.   In the Account Settings dialog box, double-click the SharePoint list for which you received the error.
4.   Clear the check on Display this list on other computers with the account: and then click OK.
5.   Make sure that the SharePoint list for which you received the error is still selected, and then click Remove.
6.   Close the Account Settings dialog box

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting – ASPHostPortal.com :: How to Solve Cannot generate SSPI context in SharePoint

Today’s problem occured after I restarted a Hyper-V based SharePoint 2013 farm (Windows Server 2012, one SharePoint 2013 machine, one SQL Server 2012 machine, one DC). I fired up Central Administration and was hit with the following error:

Unknown SQL Exception 0 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

The target principal name is incorrect. Cannot generate SSPI context.

After checking the obvious things – testing connectivity to the DB server, checking the SQL service was running, verifying permissions, etc – I initially figured this was an issue with my Hyper-V snapshots being out of sync, so I ran the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. This hit me with the following error:

Failed to detect if this server is joined to a server farm. Possible reasons for this failure could be that you no longer have appropriate permissions to the server farm, the database server hosting the server farm is unresponsive, the configuration database is inaccessible or this server has been removed from the server farm.

I attempted to rejoin the server farm to no avail, then I realised I was barking up the wrong tree. The initial error message suggests a Kerberos issue, while my farm is set up to use NTLM. After a lot of searching, this ancient forum thread pointed me in the right direction. In Active Directory, I opened the computer record for the DB server. In the attribute list, the servicePrincipalName attribute showed the following entries:

Delete the two MSSQLSvc entries and then restart the database server. In most cases this should solve the problem. Without the SPNs, authentication falls back to NTLM as it should and the farm comes back to life.

Other users have reported that they also need to delete the RestrictedKrbHost entries. In a previous version of this post, I suggested deleting every entry – after all, if we’re using NTLM, we shouldn’t need any SPNs. However, if you delete all the entries you may find you have to remove and then re-add the database server to the domain.

I’m fairly certain that this issue arose when I added Analysis Services to the SQL Server instance on the database server. Other users have reported similar issues when adding Reporting Services and Integration Services to a SQL Server instance.

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting – ASPHostPortal.com :: How to Fix SharePoint Cannot Show The Value of Filter

Multi-valued PeoplePicker Column that can be filtered using PowerShell

Recently I came across an error while filtering the multi-valued PeoplePicker column. The error reads “Cannot show the value of filter“. The field may not be filterable, or the number of items returned exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator.” There are only four values in the column, surely it has no relation to the list view threshold value.

Internally, SharePoint server uses “_layouts/filter.aspx” application page for filter values which are presented in an iFrame. I checked the ULS logs and copied the Request URL with filter.aspx. I pasted it in browser and hit “Enter”. It returned no result.

What is multi-valued field?

The field which allows more than one values or which allows multiple selections. The multi-valued fileds are non-sortable, non-filterable. Multi-valued fields cannot be indexed.

How to Fix

This behavior can be overridden. Every field has an associated schema. Multi-valued fields are marked as “Sortable =false” in the schema for performance reasons. Note: Apply the workaround wherever it is unavoidable.

If we mark the multi-valued PeoplePicker as “Sortable=true”, the column turns filterable/ sortable. This can be achieved using SharePoint Server Object Model or using Windows PowerShell (I love it).

PowerShell Script to mark the column as Sortable:

$web=Get-SPWeb <weburl>
$list=$web.Lists[<list title>]
$field=$list.Fields[<field title>]
$strSchema=$field.SchemaXml
$str=Schema$strSchema.Replace(“Sortable=`”FALSE`””,”Sortable=`”true`””)
$field.SchemaXml = $strSchema

Update: I noticed that multi-valued “person or group” column in other web application was showing filter choices even though “Sortable=false”. Googling did not help. I checked at various levels and found that “Online Presence” setting causes this error. If Online presence setting is turned OFF, SP 2010 starts showing this error for multi-valued columns when tried to filter. So turn it ON, and no error, filter choices are shown back. The Online Presence setting is available in Web applications’s General Settings.

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: Duplicate Web Part Issue in SharePoint 2013

Today for something regarding one of the new features of SharePoint 13. There is the new attribute “ReplaceContent=TRUE” for the <File> element in <Module>.

Until SharePoint 2010, whenever we reactivate the PageLayout feature (the feature that provisions the page layouts in a master page gallery), web parts that have been added to the page layout are duplicated on the new page and we do not have a very standard solution to resolve this problem except for writing a feature receiver and removing the duplicated web parts.

In SharePoint 2013 is the new attribute “ReplaceContent=TRUE” of the <File> element and if we use this when provisioning the page layout it overrides the existing web parts on the page layouts. So whenever we create a new page from the given page layouts, web parts are not duplicated.

    <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  
      <Module Name="MyPageLayouts" Url="_catalogs/masterpage" RootWebOnly="TRUE">  
        <File Path="MyPageLayouts\MyPageLayout.aspx" Url="MyPageLayouts.Intranet/MyPageLayout.aspx" Type="GhostableInLibrary" ReplaceContent="TRUE">       
    <!—- All our web parts goes here -->  
        </File>  
      </Module>

Have a look at the preceding example, I have set the ReplaceContent=”TRUE”. Because of this whenever I change, add or delete a web part in this elements.xml file and I need to reactivate the feature, the web parts on the page layouts are not duplicated but they do get overridden.

Other Usage example

I’ll like to share one more scenario related to this, I have a sandbox solution that I am deploying on Office 365. I was uploading my package file (.wsp) to the Solution Gallery and activating it. In my package I have one feature that is deploying my CSS file in the master page gallery since I do not have file system access. I had a change in CSS file, I did the change, packaged the solution, deactivated the solution first, uploaded it to the solution gallery and activated it. But my CSS changes are not reflected. Then I remembered the “ReplaceContent” attribute and I used it in the module element while provisioning the CSS file and wonder happened? It worked like a charm.

Feel free if you have some thoughts on this or please share your experience. Thanks

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: How to Create Community Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 Online

In this article I would like to share the procedure to create a Community Site collection in SharePoint 2013 online using an Admin portal.

What a Community Site is

In SharePoint 2013 a Community Site is a new site template that provides a forum experience in the SharePoint environment. Use communities to categorize and cultivate discussions among a broad group of people across organizations in a company. Communities promote open communication and information exchange by enabling people to share their expertise and seek help from others with knowledge in specific areas of interest. You can deploy a Community Portal to promote communities to users within your enterprise.

Procedure to create a Community Site collection

Step 1: Open the “Microsoft Online Portal” (Admin Center) in your browser as in the following:

URL: https://portal.microsoftonline.com/default.aspx

Provide the username and password to login the portal, then you will be navigated to the online portal (Admin Center) as shown below.

Step 2: Then click on the “Admin” dropdown on the portal. On the dropdown select the “SharePoint” as shown below.

Step 3: When you click on SharePoint you will be navigated to “SharePoint Admin center” as shown below.

Step 4: Click on “New” from the ribbon bar as shown in following and then select “private site collection”.

Step 5: Then you will get the dialog box to create the site collection when you select the private site collection as shown below.

Step 6: By default the team site collection will be selected in your dialog box, there you can choose the Community Site template as shown below.

Step 7: Then provide the following details on the dialog box as you need.

Title
Web site address
SharePoint version
Language
Type of template
Time zone
Administrator of site collection
Storage Quota
Server Resource Quota

After providing all the preceding details click “Ok” to create the site collection.

Finally Community Site collection will be created in SharePoint Online.

Summary

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: Permissions in SharePoint 2013 & Office 365 – Part 1

Hello guys today we will learn about share which is a way to assign permissions to users to their sites in SharePoint 2013 & Office 365.

Yes “Share” assigns permissions. SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 have a platform of sharing as do social sites in today’s technology. Share is a way to assign permissions to users of their sites.

Sharing

Sharing is a way to assign permissions to users by just clicking on “Share” present on the top of all the pages of the site.

Let us see what it has.

You have two tabs on the dialog box that state:

Invite people: Here you can, as it says, invite people to your site.

On the first box you can rovide the name and through user profile services it will fetch the user’s details.

On the second box, you can write a message for the user you are adding.

Send an email invitation: An option to send an email once you have added users to the site along with the personal message.
Select a group or permission level: Here you can assign a permission level to the users or directly assign them to groups.
Click on ”Share”.
The next tab has what to be shared with.

This tab will show you the name of the users this site has been shared with.

Share your site and just keep learning.

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: How To Create Enterprise Search Center Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 Online

In this article I would like to share the procedure to create an Enterprise search center site collection in SharePoint 2013 online using an admin portal.

Enterprise Search Center

A Search Center is where users enter search queries and view the search results. In SharePoint Online, a Search Center site is automatically available at <host_name>/search/. You’ll have a default search home page and a default search results page. In addition, there are several pages known as search verticals. Search verticals are customized for searching specific content, such as People, Conversations, and Videos. Search verticals display search results filtered and formatted for a specific content type or class.

Use the following procedure to create an Enterprise Search Center site collection.

Step 1: Open the “Microsoft Online Portal” (Admin Center) in your browser.

Provide the username and password to login the portal, then you will be navigated to the online portal (Admin Center) as shown below.

Step 2: Then click on the “Admin” DropDown on the portal. On the DropDown select the “SharePoint” as shown below.

Step 3: When you click on the SharePoint, you will be navigated to “SharePoint Admin center” as shown below.

Step 4: Click on the “New” from the ribbon bar as shown in the following, and then select the “private site collection”.

Step 5: Then you will get the dialog box to create the site collection, when you select the private site collection as shown below.

Step 6: On the dialog box select the enterprise tab to create an enterprise search center, by default the team site collection will be selected in your dialog box.

Step 7: Then select an Enterprise Search Center template on the dialog box as in the following:

Step 8: Then provide the following details in the dialog box depending on your requirements:

Title
Web site address
SharePoint version
Language
Type of template
Time zone
Administrator of site collection
Storage Quota
Server Resource Quota

After providing all the preceding details, click “Ok” to create the site collection.

Finally a Community site collection will be created in SharePoint Online.

Summary

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting – ASPHostPortal.com :: How to Add or Remove A New User to SharePoint Group Using Powershell Script

How to Add or Remove A New User to SharePoint Group Using Powershell Script

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Multi-valued PeoplePicker Column that can be filtered using PowerShell

What is multi-valued field?

How to Fix

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What a Community Site is

Procedure to create a Community Site collection

Summary

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Share

Sharing

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Enterprise Search Center

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